“Great Art Deserves to be Seen” – An interview in Danish newspaper Kristeligt Dagblad

Denise Burt has, over a short time, become one of the most in-demand artists for classical music album art. She throws out the classical terminology and searches in to the core of the music when she creates visual universes for Danish and International music releases.
– Lise Kabell Søgaard, Kristeligt Dagblad (DK), July 2018
(see image at bottom of page)

“Burt’s graphics respond to the radical nature of the music within, as with ‘In C’ and ‘Timber’ with a visual shorthand that promises a sensual, emotional experience as well as an intellectual one. ‘Seeing New Music’s’ 24 items make much recent ‘cover design’ for rock and pop look hackneyed and anaemic.”
– John L. Walters, Eye Magazine (UK), September 2017
> See review here

“What Does Music Look Like?” – An audio-visual story about 8 album designs

When Denise Burt started designing classical music album covers, she knew nothing about the music. And that might have been to her advantage.
– Tom Huizenga, NPR (USA), July 2015
> See whole story here

Classical cover art: the good, the bad and the ugly

“Burt’s thoughtfulness, imagination and visual variety is an insight into what can happen when label, composer and artist are working in creative synergy. I especially like what she came up with for Per Nørgard and Pelle Gundmundsen-Holmgreen, images that satisfy on their own terms but which intrigue and entice you to hear the music, the subtle balance that classical cover art should always try to achieve.”
– Tom Service, The Guardian, August 2015
> Read the whole article here

“A strange challenge behind album cover artists and graphic designers like Denise Burt is to capture (or at least pique curiosity in) one artistic medium through the use of another…  In fact, the two are often paired in such contrast that to a browsing patron stores might as well be selling vast rows of mystery boxes… classical album art has long suffered from this disconnect, mostly stemming from artwork that has been attributed to and never coordinated with its product. Denise Burt’s album artwork has seemed to realign this creative
flowchart using a more focused, logical process…
Denise Burt’s contributions spell renewed confidence in the future of contemporary classical marketing. The genre’s coexistence with the digital age demands the thoughtful subtlety and collaboration graphic designers bring to the table.”
– Steve Nagel, Classicalite.com (US), August, 2015
> See full article here

CD design for “death speaks”, Cantaloupe Records

“Droplets of guitar and piano are bathed in swaths of melancholy violin sustains, wrapping enchanting lines … death speaks is well worth multiple rotations. Special mention is due art director Denise Burt (Elevator Design) for the year’s most arresting and memorable album cover.”
– Time Out Chicago, December 2013 (Best of 2013: The top 10 classical and new-music albums of the year)

“Lang’s ‘death speaks’ (Cantaloupe Music, 2013) is a triumph of the designer’s art in taking elements from various sources—including a decidedly creepy late Victorian photograph—and fusing them into a wholly new work of art. Of her latest artwork, those for Julia Wolfe’s ‘Steel Hammer’ and Lang’s ‘Love Fail’ take simple images to encapsulate an element at least of the music as a narrative image, whereas for Michael Gordon’s ‘Rushes’ or Rune Glerup’s ‘dust encapsulated’ and ordinary images are sublimated into the abstract to represent something of the composer’s art. In the case of Holmboe’s ‘Chamber Music (I)’, an image of multiplying bacteria in a Petri dish illustrates—illuminates one could say—the internal organic processes of Holmboe’s music while standing on its own as a vivid piece of art.”
– Guy Rickards, Gramophone (UK), May 2015